. Christians claim that Jesus is alive but what evidence is there of this?

Answer 1

Elvis is Alive!

Answer 2

The main basis for Christianity is that Jesus resurrected from the grave. There were hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw Jesus appear after he was dead. The Bible records some of these sightings. One of the greatest miracles that Jesus did was raise several people from the dead. This lead to more people following him. this showed that Jesus had power over life and death. What is often not said about the Bible account of when Jesus resurrected is that many other people who had died and been buried in tombs were brought back to life when there was a great earthquake in Jerusalem then. Remember that when the Gospels were written there would still be some of those people around to refute that if it had not happened. The Bible is the most historical accurate document bar none. Following the Legal historical method still used in courts today the written record of those events would stand in a court of law based on the documented evidence and testimony of multitude of witnesses.

The apostle Paul saw Jesus a few years after He had risen and changed from persecutiong the church to being the main founder of churches for it.

When belivers pray in Jesus' name, often there are great answers to pray which is evidence that He lives. a dead god cannot answer prayers.

Answer 3

Long before you or I were born, over 500 people witnessed the risen Christ walking the earth.

They ate, worked, talked, and prayed with him.

Forty days later, many of those same people witnessed Jesus ascending into the heavens from the Mount of Olives, just outside of Jerusalem.

Today, anyone can come to know Jesus Christ through the authentic and universal church which he personally founded, for the purpose of our salvation.

I know Jesus. We share a meal together at least once a week.

Jesus has always been there for me whenever I've called upon his name ... in good times and in bad.

We're more than pals ... we're brothers.

Please consider this authentic first-person, eye-witness testimony, which is totally consistent with that of all Christians, from every age.

Answer 4

When Jesus told His Disciples that when He ascended to Heaven He would leave with us His comforter.

This is the Holy Spirit of our Lord. He lives within your heart and guides you daily.

We will see our Lord soon. We are living in Bible Prophecy, the end of the age is upon us.

The New Testament. Plus, Isaiah propshied Jesus birth 700 years before He was born Isaiah: 9: 6-7.

If you do not partake in praising Him and living the life He wants us to live, then you will not experience the evidence of His Spirit.

Answer 5

There are lots of evidences. All His disciples saw them alive. He was on earth 40 days to show the disciples that he is alive and also to strengthen them for the coming tribulations.
His grave is open now also for your proof.
If Jesus didn't resurrect, our faith (christian) is in vain. Satan hates to hear that Jesus is alive. But JESUS IS ALIVE.
I talk to Him daily. He is a wonderful friend

Answer 6

(See, so many other answerers claiming there were so many eyewitnesses--yet we are to believe that a man lived that did such fantastic and miraculous things, and not a single, solitary person wrote a single word about him while he was alive? Give me a break! Even mundane (by comparison) philosophers who didn't do anything miraculous and lived BEFORE Jesus's alleged life had people write stuff about them)

Jesus probably never even existed in the first place because there is no contemporary evidence of his existence (that is, nothing about him recorded during his alleged life)--the 'soonest' evidence we have is from Saul of Tarsus, who wrote about Jesus several DECADES AFTER his alleged death.

Not only that, but Saul writes with NO apparent knowledge of most of the alleged events of Jesus's life that are mentioned in the Gospels (which came after Saul's writings, keep in mind). He mentions only the last bits about Jesus--him being crucified and rising up to heaven. However, Saul makes it quite clear that he is not talking about an earthly Jesus, but a mythical one, and places the crucifixion etc. in a mythical realm, not earth. The closest he comes to mentioning a Jesus who 'walked among us' is when he mentions that (paraphrasing, bear with me) 'if Jesus lived on earth, he would not be a priest' or something like that.

Yup--that is how shaky the foundation is. Saul's account is the strongest (because his account comes chronologically closest to Jesus's alleged death) link between Jesus's alleged life and the gospels which go into great detail about it. It's the strongest much in the same way that molten lead is the most refreshing drink to be found on Venus.

So basically, we got Saul's stuff, which strongly clashes with the gospels it preceded, and then we've got nothing for several years after that (next account is the Gospel of Mark (which is attributed to Mark but is actually an anonymous work; further supporting this is the fact that the consensus is that this gospel was written in the 60s or 70s CE--there's no way someone alive during Jesus's alleged life would still be alive in those times).

Then suddenly we have all kinds of details about Jesus's life that just seem to pop up out of nowhere, and the majority of the 'major ones' coincide HEAVILY with other myths of the time (which preceded the Gospels as well).

Anyone objectively looking at the combination of the 'sudden details' with the uncanny number of parallels to other, older myths of the time would quickly come to the very fair conclusion that the writers of the gospels were 'storytelling' as opposed to recording history when they wrote them. Their goal was to convert people, not to document history, which is why they were writing _gospels_ in the first place.

Also, there is the fact that there are a bunch of uncanny similarities betwee the Gospels' accounts of his life and the myths of other man-gods of the time.

Now...is it any wonder that, when taking everything into consideration, it is perfectly reasonable for one to be quite skeptical of the earthly existence of Jesus Christ as the Bible describes him (it's not that he COULDN'T have existed, but when you take a step back and look at everything objectively, it's quite obvious that it is extremely unlikely).

P.S. Theologians generally agree that the other three gospels in the Bible are clearly derived from Mark, which is why I didn't mention them specifically.

Answer 7

I'm right here, am I not ? Jesus lives as the holy spirit in his own. Very few know this, because very few ARE of his TRUTHS or DO what is necessary to get to knowing his eternal spirit. The "Jesus" of the christian faith, is NOT the Jesus of actual reality. THIS Jesus was an invention of the Roman Empire and it's church and limited to it's "ignorances."

Answer 8

We just know, faith is a choice You believe or you dont. God said seek and You will find.....I know for myself and am thankfull....but I cant give you concrete evidence so you would have to take my word... that is why there are people that devote there lives to spreading the word of God to people who cannot "see" and get them to beleive

Answer 9

The Holy Spirit. I keep answering these types of questions with the same answer. God keeps the proof, and gives it to those He wants to have it.

What is anyone going to do about it?

Answer 10

The New Testament, the doctrine of the Messiah.